Analysis of the development Android’s runtime

Kostiantyn Honcharenko

kostiantyn.honcharenko@pollub.edu.pl
Lublin University of Technology (Ukraine)

Jakub Smołka


Lublin University of Technology (Poland)

Abstract

The article presents the development of the Android runtime. Own application for Android is presented, which implements performance benchmarks used to test different versions of the Android runtime. The methods measure the benchmark execution times in different versions of the Android runtime environment.


Keywords:

Android; run time; Dalvik; ART

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Published
2019-09-30

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Honcharenko, K. ., & Smołka, J. (2019). Analysis of the development Android’s runtime. Journal of Computer Sciences Institute, 12, 246–251. https://doi.org/10.35784/jcsi.504

Authors

Kostiantyn Honcharenko 
kostiantyn.honcharenko@pollub.edu.pl
Lublin University of Technology Ukraine

Authors

Jakub Smołka 

Lublin University of Technology Poland

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